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■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Barack Obama and free trade
Economic vandalism
The International Monetary Fund
Back from the dead
Goldstone on Gaza
Opportunity missed
Tobin taxes
The wrong tool for the job
The car industry
Trouble down the road
Germany's uninspiring election
Set Angela free

■Letters
On electric cars, Vladimir Putin, antitrust policy, Canada, Cisco Systems, Congress, meetings, Richard Dawkins

■Briefing
Germany's election
A change of partners?
United States
The tyre wars
Playing with fire
Barack Obama at the United Nations
Saying all the right things
Health-care reform
Half a loaf―or just half-baked?
Political memoirs
In their own words
Gloomy numbers from the census
Poorer, but at least not sicker
Illegal immigration
The continuing crackdown
The revival of Pittsburgh
Lessons for the G20
Lexington
Charlie Rangel's taxes

■The Americas
Chile's presidential election
The strange chill in Chile
Chile's surprising president
The Bachelet model
Venezuela's foreign policy
Dreams of a different world
Homophobia in Jamaica
A vicious intolerance

■Asia
Thailand's political army
Where power lies
Japan's new government
Poodle or Pekinese?
Commonwealth games in Delhi
Who will bell the cat?
Counter-insurgency in Afghanistan
“We have too much to do”
Nepal's political stalemate
Demonstration effect
Banyan
The trials of Ah-Bian

■Middle East & Africa
The UN report on Israel and Gaza
Israel in the dock
Iran's shaky government
Not over yet
Riots in Uganda
In whose interest?
Zimbabwe's land invasions
Out with those white farmers
Al-Qaeda in Somalia
The long arm of America

■Europe
Russia's political leaders
Behind the golden doors
Russia's odd couple
The Vladimir and Dmitry show
France's carbon tax
Taming the carbonivores
Norway's election
Rich but worried
Charlemagne
In knots over headscarves

■Britain
Northern Ireland
Hanging in there
Labour and the trade unions
My enemy's enemy
New ideas for welfare reform
Thanks, but no thanks
The short-haired bumblebee
Bzzzt, it's back
Risk, regulation and children
A toxic mix [Britain only]
Executive pay
Maligned, or misaligned? [Britain only]
Trouble at the National Archives
Pricing the past [Britain only]
Bagehot
The last laugh

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■International
Developing countries and global warming
A bad climate for development

■Business
The car industry
Small isn't beautiful
Google's corporate culture
Creative tension
Comedy in America
Cheap and cheerful
InnoCentive
A market for ideas
Consumer goods in Japan
Fashion victims
Marketing on social networks
Friends for sale
Halal food
Cut-throat competition
Schumpeter
Taking flight

■Briefing
LVMH in the recession
The substance of style

■Finance and Economics
The IMF assessed
A good war
Buttonwood
Alternative reality
Insider trading in Hong Kong
To the dungeon
Investors and climate change
Green backing
Petrol prices in China
Driving in the right direction
Ireland's bad bank
The morning after
Morgan Stanley's head bows out
Mack moves on
Global house prices
It's life, Jim
Economics focus
Measuring what matters

■Science & Technology
Cleaning aircraft-cabin air
Breathing more easily
Exercise and company
Fitter with friends
Unhealthy showers
The joy of bathing
Rogue waves
Monsters of the deep
Teenage sexual maturity
Daddy's girl

■Books & Arts
A history of Christianity
The greatest story, or the trickiest?
Harold Evans's newspaper memoirs
A golden age
The queen mother
Doomed to repeat
Edward Kennedy's autobiography
A parting shot
James Ellroy's paranoid fiction
Blood and skill
Vermeer at the Met
A Dutch treat

■Obituary
Norman Borlaug

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■Leaders
The financial industry
Unnatural selection
Indonesia's future
A golden opportunity
Barack Obama's health-care speech
The art of the possible
Elections in Afghanistan
Re-rigging Hamid Karzai
Fiscal policy
The other exit strategy
Proliferation from North Korea and Iran
Will Russia and China pitch in?

■Letters
On the Lockerbie bombing, “birthers”, Africa's population, responsibility to protect, “Inglourious Basterds”

■Briefing
India's water crisis
When the rains fail

■United States
The president weighs in on health reform
Fired up and ready to go
The cap-and-trade bill
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Barack Obama's falling ratings
The summer of waning love
The trouble with pornography
Hard times
Off-track betting in crisis
Flogging a dead horse
Older workers and the recession
Still good for a few more years
Black cowboys
Urban rodeo
Lexington
Free speech for me, but not for thee
Correction: Gambling in Florida

■The Americas
Mexico's embattled president
Calderón tries again
Venezuela and Colombia
Politics versus trade
Ecuador, Argentina and the IMF
The price of pride
Canada's wine industry
Outsourcing terroir

■Asia
Tension in Xinjiang
The party under siege in Urumqi
Vietnam's nationalist bloggers
Getting it off your chest
Kazakhstan's human-rights record
Dangerous driving
War in Afghanistan
Collateral damage of every sort
Banyan
Ichiro Ozawa: the shadow shogun

■Middle East & Africa
Strife in Yemen
The world's next failed state?
The Palestinians' West Bank
Not as horrible as it was
A metro for the Emirates
All that glisters...
Africa's diplomacy over Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe off the hook as usual
Zimbabwe's still-muzzled press
Alternative voices longing to be heard
Guns in Africa
Out of control

■Europe
America and eastern Europe
End of an affair?
Germany's energy debate
Nuclear power? Yes, maybe
French criminal justice
A delicate judgment
Turkey, Cyprus and NATO
Fogh in the Aegean
Spain's growing budget deficit
Taxing times
Spain's judiciary
Judge Garzón in the dock
Charlemagne
Germany's oddly vapid election

■Britain
The ethics of Labour's foreign policy
Angels and demons
Military exports
No farewell to arms
The airline bombers
Bang to rights
Politics and the spending squeeze
The chancellor's eyebrows
The growth of home tutoring
Top-up teaching [Britain only]
Teaching assistants
Unintended consequences [Britain only]
Televised election debates
Ready for his close-up? [Britain only]
Britain and Montenegro
An Anglo-Balkan moment [Britain only]
Bagehot
The end of the age of war

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■International
UNESCO and World Heritage Sites
The limits of soft cultural power
UNESCO's leadership
A race or a death-wish?
Iran, North Korea and the bomb
Spinning dark new tales
Higher education and the recession
It still pays to study

■A special report on Indonesia
A golden chance
More of the same, please
Free to air
Things do not fall apart
Tolerance levels
Surprise, surprise
More than a single swallow
Not making it easy
A deep-rooted habit
Acacia avenue
Everybody's friend
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Mergers and acquisitions make a comeback
The return of the deal
China's struggling smaller firms
Small fish in a big pond
The World Bank's Doing Business report
Reforming through the tough times
Employers spying on staff
Big Brother bosses
The travails of Turkey's Dogan Yayin
Dogan v Erdogan
Face value
Iliad's warrior

■Briefing
Wall Street's new shape
Rearranging the towers of gold

■Finance and Economics
Making fiscal policy credible
Bind games
The boss of CIT
Peek. Agh. Boo
The G20 meetings
What next?
Buttonwood
Too big for its Gucci boots
Bankruptcy fees
Boom, bust, bonanza
Speculators and the oil price
Data drilling
Banco Santander in Brazil
Push the float out
Patents as financial assets
Trolls demanding tolls
Economics focus
What if?

■Science & Technology
Space
Flying high
Tuna and pollock
A tale of two fisheries
Self-erasing paper
Fade to red
Earthquake-proof bridges
Beaten but not broken

■Books & Arts
Lehman Brothers and the crisis
A year on
The Fed and the crisis
Financial firefighting
Charles Dickens
An extravagant imagination
Seahorses
How odd, how lovely
British reportage
Goodbye to all that
Skellig Michael
An Irish riddle wrapped in a mystery

■Obituary
Sergei Mikhalkov

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■The world this week
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■Leaders
Japan's election
The vote that changed Japan
Russia's past
The unhistory man
Sudan and Darfur
The generals have got it right
Trade agreements
Doing Doha down
Digital publishing
Google's big book case
Electric cars
Charge!

■Letters
On Italy's south, America's fishing industry, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Edward Kennedy, France's health system, American regions, words

■Briefing
Japan's election
Lost in transition

■United States
Republicans and Democrats in Congress
Why can't they just get on?
Ted Kennedy's Senate successor
Can the dream live on?
The Virginia governor's race
Sins of the student
The Jaycee Dugard kidnapping
A tragedy of errors
The Juanes row in Miami
If music be the food of love...
Gambling in Florida
Indian gold
The Mark Sanford soap opera
Five hundred more days?
Lexington
The politics of death

■The Americas
Brazil's oil policy
Preparing to spend a “millionaire ticket” from offshore
Venezuela's oil policy
A sticky proposition
Term limits in Colombia
Closer to Uribe 3.0
The Vancouver winter Olympics
Sliding off piste

■Asia
War and politics in Afghanistan
McChrystal in the bull ring
The People's Republic at 60
A harmonious and stable crackdown
The Dalai Lama in Taiwan
Splittists' reunion
Sri Lanka and the EU
Losing touch with old friends
Malaysian politics
Dropping a Klanger
Asian trade
The noodle bowl

■Middle East & Africa
Iraq's freedoms under threat
Could a police state return?
Lebanon's mixed marriages
Not at home
Iran's dissenting students
Trying to pep up the opposition
The crisis in Darfur
Neither all-out war nor a proper peace
An East African Federation
Big ambitions, big question-marks
Africa and climate change
A green ransom
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■Europe
Germany's elections
Not yet in Angela Merkel's bag
France returns to work
Back from the beach
Silvio Berlusconi's troubles
Superman strikes back
Turkish-Armenian relations
Football diplomacy
Greece calls an election
Socialist hope
Russia, Poland and history
Mr Putin regrets
Charlemagne
Turkey's circular worries

■Britain
Reform of the civil service
Retooling the Rolls-Royce
Britain's Eurocrats
Back in the saddle again
Gordon Brown's Lockerbie problem
Nowhere to hide
Lockerbie and Scottish politics
A dream fades
Flourishing tourism
Pulling them in [Britain only]
Lessons from Lehman
Turf woes [Britain only]
Vice and social class
Pissed and posh [Britain only]
Bagehot
Into the vortex

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■International
Child welfare
The nanny state
Journalists in jail
The price of truth

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Keeping pirates at bay
Monitor
Tilting in the breeze
Monitor
Span of control
Monitor
Keeping a grip
Monitor
Trappings of waste
Monitor
Air power
Monitor
The taxonomy of tumours
Monitor
The digital geographers
Monitor
Washing without water
Monitor
Hard act to follow
Monitor
Memories are made of this
Monitor
Only humans allowed
Rational consumer
The road ahead
Mobile augmented reality
Reality, improved
Unmanned military aircraft
Attack of the drones
Case history
A factory on your desk
Biohacking
Hacking goes squishy
3-D imaging
3-D: It's nearly there
Brain scan
Paranoid survivor
Offer to readers

■Business
Business in Japan under the DPJ
New bosses
The stigma of wealth in China
Original sin
China invests in Canada's tar sands
Upgraded
Walt Disney buys Marvel Entertainment
Of mouse and X-Men
Google books
Tome raider
Oracle and Sun Microsystems
Europe steps in
Selling designer goods online
When cheap is exclusive
Face value
Dummies for finance

■Briefing
The electrification of motoring
The electric-fuel-trade acid test

■Finance and Economics
Banks' funding needs
Total liabilities
Funding rules in New Zealand
Lord of the ratios
Decoding money-supply data
Narrow success, broad concerns
Buttonwood
Be thankful they don't take it all
Derivatives contracts in China
Our loss, your problem
The wealth effect
Withdrawal symptoms
Gary Gensler, derivatives cop
A new sheriff
Economics focus
The incredible shrinking surplus

■Science & Technology
AIDS vaccines
A fluttering in the breeze
The origin of diabetes
Don't blame your genes
Education, psychology and technology
Games lessons
Antibiotics
A spineless solution
Correction: Folic acid

■Books & Arts
The evidence for evolution
It's all there
The evolution of empathy
Less brutish, still short
Globalisation
The value of history
The Islamic veil
Out from under
A surgeon's life
Death and sex
William Golding
Not a one-trick pony

■Obituary
Stanley Robertson

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■Leaders
Company size
Big is back
Africa's population
The lesson from Sodom and Gomorrah
The Federal Reserve
Right man, rough job
The Lockerbie controversy
Friends like these
Afghanistan's presidential election
The vote nobody won

■Letters
On sex offenders, Corazon Aquino, Japan, the Lockerbie bomber, German corporate governance, Old Believers, lavatories

■Briefing
Africa's population
The baby bonanza

■United States
CIA interrogations and the Blackwater affair
The underside of war
Budget forecasts
Pangloss revisited
The Texas governor's race
A showdown with tumbleweeds
Emigration from California
Go east or north, young man
Violent-crime rates
Serener streets
Mercury in fish
Hold the sushi
Lexington
A hell of a senator

■The Americas
Presidential politics in Brazil
A wounded force in search of a new compass
Malnutrition in Guatemala
A national shame
Landmines in Colombia
Cheap and lethal
Canada's Arctic policy
Harper of the melting North

■Asia
Afghanistan's presidential elections
More votes than voters
The Pakistani Taliban
Falling out
Thailand's political impasse
Orange, anyone?
Timor-Leste ten years on
Too few to mention
Australia and Indonesia
The Balibo five
Japan's election
Young swingers

■Middle East & Africa
The reshaping of Iraqi politics
Blowing a hole in the political landscape
Iran's Revolutionary Guards
Showing who's boss
Morocco and its king
Popular but prickly
The decline in Kenya's safaris
Campfire blues

■Europe
Portugal's drug policy
Treating, not punishing
Israel and Sweden row
Blog wars
The left and the German elections
Red sky in the west?
Turkey and the Kurds
Peace time?
Hungary and Slovakia
Frost bite
Illegal migration to Italy
Boat-race people
Charlemagne
Summertime blues

■Britain
Lockerbie fallout
Counting the cost
London Underground
Subterranean heatsick blues
Tackling internet piracy
The spider and the web
Policing protest
An ever-bigger tent [Britain only]
Government borrowing
More where that came from [Britain only]
Mortgage lenders' margins
After you [Britain only]
Bagehot
Monsieur health secretary

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■International
Charles Taylor on trial
Man of peace, man of war
Refugee trends
Lost in limbo

■Business
America's vigorous new antitrust policy
Return of the trustbusters
The Ambani brothers fight over gas
Convoluted and heated
Solar power's bright future in Japan
Land of the rising subsidy
GM rethinks the sale of Opel
Looking for reverse
Electronic-book readers multiply
Screen test
Charging for newspapers online
Now pay up
Developing new drugs
Reds under our meds
Face value
Missionary man

■Briefing
Reshaping Cisco
The world according to Chambers

■Finance and Economics
Ben Bernanke's reappointment
The very model of a modern central banker
Buttonwood
A fair share
Banks in the deep South
Sweaty days
Banking bonuses in France
Ça fait malus
China's stockmarket
Another great leap
Chinese bank lending
Follow the money
Economics focus
Jackson's Holes

■Science & Technology
The virtues of biochar
A new growth industry?
Folic acid
On the pill
Women, testosterone and finance
Risky business
Sexual selection in humans
Mr Muscle

■Books & Arts
Europe and Islam
A treacherous path?
A biography of Arthur Ransome
Man overboard
Nuclear physics
A rush of energy
Henry Kaufman on financial reform
He told us so
The photographs of August Sander
Twentieth-century man
A bibliophile's memoir
Out of the dark
Film: “Inglourious Basterds”
Making the unfunny funny

■Obituary
Kim Dae-jung

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■Leaders
The war in Afghanistan
Losing Afghanistan?
Japan's election
Out with the old
World economy
U, V or W for recovery
American health care
Keep it honest
Britain's Conservatives
Step forward, Dave the brave

■Letters
On energy, Jimmy Carter, efficiency, Uganda's oil, Asian-Americans, home-schooling, lavatories

■Briefing
Afghanistan
From insurgency to insurrection
American opinions on Afghanistan
A war of necessity?

■United States
Health reform
The labours of Sisyphus
Youth unemployment
Left behind
Drinking laws
The 21 Club
The worst unemployment figures
Benefits and the border
Gay-marriage laws
Still waiting
Robert Novak
The prince of darkness
Statewatch: Maryland
Thanks be to DC
Lexington
Still crazy after all these years

■The Americas
Venezuela's education “reforms”
Hugo Chávez seeks to catch them young
Ecuador's education reforms
Correa's curriculum
The Turks and Caicos loses independence
A very British coup

■Asia
Japan's election
Railing against the wrong enemy
Taiwan's typhoon
The political storm
Kim Dae-jung and North Korea
A glint of sunshine
India's failing monsoon
It never rains
Australia's relations with China
Different approaches
A murder in China
Crime and punishment
China's drink-driving crackdown
Call a cab

■Middle East & Africa
Libya and Muammar Qaddafi, 40 years on
How to squander a nation's potential
Israeli politics
Bibi the happy juggler
More bombings in Iraq
Lethal and relentless
An Ethiopian singer freed
Movement of jah people
Zambia's corruption trial
Not guilty

■Europe
Former Yugoslavia patches itself together
Entering the Yugosphere
Germany's election
The parties' tax tangle
Dangerous dogs in Denmark
Shoot the puppy!
Russia and Ukraine
Dear Viktor, you're dead, love Dmitry
Spanish soccer
The drain to Spain
The euro-area economy
Growing apart?

■Britain
An interview with David Cameron
The man who would be prime minister
Transatlantic rift over the NHS
Healthier than thou
Rebuilding Jaguar Land Rover
Tata takes charge [Britain only]
A-level results
Dumbing down: discuss [Britain only]
Children in prison
Growing up banged up [Britain only]
Bagehot
The vanity of ideas

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■International
Piracy and private enterprise
Splashing, and clashing, in murky waters
The Lockerbie decision
A long shadow

■Business
Consumer goods in the recession
The game has changed
Reader's Digest declares bankruptcy
Unsexy and unsuccessful
Publishing in Australia
Copyrights and wrongs
Volkswagen and Porsche
My other car firm's a Porsche
Competition comes to Mexican telecoms
Talking and saving
Cathay Pacific, Air China and Citic Pacific
Landing rights
A row in the champagne industry
Corks at dawn
Face value
Bank to square one

■Briefing
BT's pension problem
Friends, family and grandads too

■Finance and Economics
America's housing market
Where it all began
Housing derivatives
Spark of invention
Monetary policy
Tight corners
South Africa's economy
Late starter
Carbon markets in China
Verdant?
Reforming finance: Resolution regimes
Fail-safe
Payment cards and the poor
A plastic prop
Economics focus
The unkindest cuts

■Science & Technology
Better vaccinations
Hypodermic needless
Influenza vaccination
How to stop an outbreak
The smell of death
The dogs have had their day
Reading bar codes with mobile phones
Snap it, click it, use it
Correction: Lightyears

■Books & Arts
Political philosophy
Mightier than the sword
American conservatism
Overdoing it
Brazilian literature
The slide towards insecthood
New film: “District 9”
Prawns and other illegal aliens
The Tiananmen uprising
Spied from the inside
Les Paul
The man who changed rock music

■Obituary
Gayatri Devi

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■Leaders
Asia
An astonishing rebound
Latin America's new alliances
Whose side is Brazil on?
The decline of the landline
Unwired
World trade and commercial aircraft
A dogfight no one can win
Galileo, four centuries on
As important as Darwin
Correction: America's sex laws

■Letters
On torture, hate radio, Arabs, free trade, education, the rich, Britain's monarchy, toilets

■Briefing
Latin American geopolitics
The dragon in the backyard

■United States
Clean energy in the Midwest
Greening the rustbelt
The economics of natural gas
Drowning in it
The politics of health reform
Friend or foe?
Helping the auto industry
Swings and roundabouts
Drought in Texas
Not a cloud
Immigration
When home is prison
Rich animals
The dog will have his day in court
California's overcrowded prisons
Gulags in the sun

■The Americas
Brazil's foreign policy
Lula and his squabbling friends
Football and politics in Argentina
Hand of gold
Energy v environment in Canada
Bombs in the bush

■Asia
Myanmar
More bricks in the wall around her
Afghanistan's presidential election
Incumbent on him
The Pakistani Taliban
Death on the roof
Australia's opposition
His own worst enemy
Sri Lanka's post-war local elections
Voting in the empty Tigers' lair
Taiwan's typhoon
Taiwan's disastrous typhoon
China and the WTO
Let me entertain you
Banyan
The Burmese road to ruin

■Middle East & Africa
Fatah and the Palestinians
Fresh faces, old hands
Iran and human rights
The crackdown
Security in Iraq
A return to the bad old days?
Smoking in Iraq
Butt out, please
Ethiopia's resilient prime minister
The two sides of Meles Zenawi
America and Africa
Hillary (not Bill) on safari
Correction: Bahrain

■Europe
Southern Italy's ills
The messy mezzogiorno
Iceland and the European Union
The Icesave bill
Italy's vigilantes
On the beat
Germany's Free Democrats
The centre holds
Turkey and Russia
Old rivals, new partners
Killings in Chechnya
Zarema's end

■Britain
Prospects for recovery
Mervyn's reality check
The politics of defence
The thinning red line
Bankers' bonuses
Watered down [Britain only]
Scotland's capital and recession
Party time [Britain only]
Edinburgh festivals
Fringe-onomics [Britain only]
Swine flu
Summer lull [Britain only]
Bagehot
Love in the time of swine flu
Correction: Teaching in Britain

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■International
The Geneva conventions at 60
Unleashing the laws of war

■Business
America loses its landlines
Cutting the cord
Boeing and Airbus argue about subsidies
Trading blows
Tourism atrophies in Europe
Clouds over the Mediterranean
America's subsidies for filmmaking
The money shot
Online auctions
Mind the pennies
The outlook for jobs in America
Help not wanted
Lenovo bets on China
Where the heart is
Face value
Top of his game

■Briefing
Emerging Asian economies
On the rebound

■Finance and Economics
AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
The toxic trio
Bankers' pay and the French
More égalité, less liberté
Assessing quantitative easing
Muzzled
Buttonwood
Law of easy money
The Madoff affair
A sidekick sings
Retail bonds in Europe
Small fry wanted
Rebalancing the world economy: Japan
Stuck in neutral
Economics focus
Cause and defect

■Science & Technology
The future of astronomy
Black-sky thinking
Galaxies in the early universe
Rocking the cradle
Detecting habitable new worlds
The next blue planet
The history of science
Kepler's world

■Books & Arts
A biography of Friedrich Engels
A very special business angel
Speaking out for the Uighurs
Breathing fire
Valuing stockmarkets
When the signals flash red
Fiction from Haiti
Meanness of the heart
Football and economics
Game for geeks
A history of classical music finally reaches paperback
A feast for musicians, students and casual concert-goers

■Obituary
Benson

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Illiberal politics
America's unjust sex laws
Redesigning Europe's biggest economy
Unbalanced Germany
Britain's energy crisis
How long till the lights go out?
Regulating executive compensation
Pay and politics
Generic drugs and competition
Something rotten
Islam and heresy
Where freedom is still at stake

■Letters
On economics, gambling, Ecuador and Colombia, American politics

■Briefing
Sex laws
Unjust and ineffective

■United States
Signs of economic cheer
The sun also rises
The growth of home-schooling
Kitchen-classroom conservatives
Coney Island's redevelopment
On and off the boardwalk
California's universities in trouble
Before the fall
Regulating cannabis in California
Puff, puff, pay
Lexington
A lucky hawk so far

■The Americas
Cuba's penurious revolution
When two plus two equals three
Colombia and its neighbours
Bazookas and bases
Venezuela's media crackdown
Switched off
The North American summit
Reluctant partners
Argentina's meaty diet
Bife de lomo, or bean sprouts?

■Asia
Sri Lanka after the war
Behind the Rajapaksa brothers' smiles
Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Il
Bill and Kim's excellent adventure
Pakistan's constitutional troubles
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The steel fist of government
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Kanpai!
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A stacked deck
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The next jihad
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A hip-hop happening they had of it
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Energetic blackmail
Reforms in Turkey
Marching along
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Close but no government
Kosovo and media freedom
No criticism, please
Charlemagne
Those exceptional Swedes
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Gordon Brown's latest relaunch
The election starts here
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Never-ending story
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Help yourself
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Private schools in the recession
Staying on board

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Hard talk, soft policy
Buttonwood
Caveat creditor
Japanese banking liberalisation
Knocking down the wall
The rise of dark pools
Attack of the clones
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Rate expectations
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Bernard Madoff
The Madoff affair
Reforming finance: the EU's proposals
Divided by a common market
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Put out
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Babies' names and the internet
Local yokels

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Dead end
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Masked ball

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Business-networking websites
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The recession and pay
The quiet Americans
Welfare claims surge
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The Voting Rights Act
Sacred, or outdated
Captain America
He's back
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Counting them in
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Not by aircraft alone
Lexington
The senator-in-chief

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Coca and cocaine in the Andes
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Water and grime

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India's Naxalites
A ragtag rebellion
Indian-held Kashmir
Grim up north
Taiwan's president and China
Sorry, the offer's closed
China's internet censors
Dammed if you do
North Korea's Myanmar links
Cocking a snuke
Myanmar's beleaguered Karens
On the run
Banyan
Burying Asia's savage past

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The crisis in Iran
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Why the turbans are at odds
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Is it getting worse again?
Somalia and its jihadists
A government under the cosh

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Germany's mediocre universities
On shaky foundations
France ponders a burqa ban
No cover up
Sarkozy addresses parliament
The state of the state
Troubled Ireland and Europe
Lisbon's last hope
Silvio Berlusconi's woes
A conqueror, not an end-user
Charlemagne
A hopper but not a pleaser
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Eurochums
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Suffer the little children
A world of Methuselahs
The silver dollar
Scrimp and save
Work till you drop
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Into the unknown
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LinkedIn v freemasons
Joining the club
Software that spots hidden networks
Electronic ties that bind
The recession hits Fininvest
Relegated
Formula One's civil war
Mosley submits
Anglo American spurns Xstrata
Anglophilia, Xstrataphobia
Sinopec buys Addax
Bottom of the barrel
GE and industrial loan companies
Parting company
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Reforming American health care
Heading for the emergency room

■Finance and Economics
Consumer spending in Asia
Shopaholics wanted
Buttonwood
Tied to the mast
Chinese IPOs resume
Thirst-quenching
Money-market funds under scrutiny
Sleep therapy
Friction in world trade
Duties call
The craze for clearing houses
Counter insurgency
Mortgage defaults in America
Can pay, won't pay
Economics focus
Deliver us from competition

■Science & Technology
A new display technology
Spots of innovation
The earliest granaries
Food for thought
Informed consent and virtual worlds
The avatar will see you now
Lightweight dinosaurs
Not so terrible
The evolutionary origin of depression
Mild and bitter

■Books & Arts
New Acropolis Museum opens
Milestones
Books on the credit crunch
First draft of history
Violence in eastern Anatolia
Give up the g-word
Constitutional democracy
Power to the people
Werner Herzog and “Fitzcarraldo”
Drama and melodrama
Correction: “Phèdre”

■Obituary
Ralf Dahrendorf

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Heroin prices
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
World's biggest bank losses

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
Iran and the world
Iran rises up
Israel, Palestine and America
Both states must be real
Argentina's mid-term election
A chance to change course
Reforming financial regulations in America
Better broth, still too many cooks
Fund management
Competitive failure
Business in Japan
No exit

■Letters
On Georgia, Citigroup, British Columbia, antitrust policy, health care, Russia, executive pay, China

■Briefing
Iran's election
Demanding to be counted
Coverage of the protests
Twitter 1, CNN 0

■United States
Obama, Iran and North Korea
Meeting thuggery with coolness
Transport spending
Delays ahead
The health-care debate
Will the blue dogs bolt?
Keeping poultry in cities
Checking out the chicks
Mayoral control of schools in New York
Political prisoners
Church attendance in recessions
No rush for pews
The mayor of Los Angeles
Down and perhaps in
Cracking down on smoking
Marlboro Country no more
Lexington
Madame Secretary

■The Americas
Argentina's mid-term election
The glass empties for the Kirchners
Venezuela's oil-dependent economy
Socialism on the never-never
Mexico's drug war
All in the family
Canada's troubled nuclear industry
Ending a dream, or nightmare

■Asia
Politics in Thailand
Fading colours
Kazakhstan's purge
The knock on the door
Nepal's fragile new government
False start
Australia and anti-Indian violence
Regrettable facts
China's schistosomiasis scourge
Hello again, God of Plague
Gay rights in China
Comrades-in-arms
Banyan
Kim family saga: third and final act

■Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe's hard sell
A warm welcome but little money
East Africa gets broadband
It may make life easier and cheaper
Lynching in Kenya
A routine crime
Israel's settlements
Grappling with America

■Europe
France and Africa
They came to bury him, not to praise him
Silvio Berlusconi and the press
Language problems
Russia and Western clubs
No thanks, Geneva
Hungary's opposition
A nasty party
Turkey and its army
Restive colonels and generals
Charlemagne
The danger of unemployment

■Britain
Reforming bank regulation
Turf wars in black tie
The future of the BBC
Auntie stumbling?
The future of broadband
And access for all
Inquiring into the Iraq war
Lessons to learn
Devolution finances
Still evolving [Britain only]
Applying for asylum
After the backlog, a backlog [Britain only]
Tax havens under pressure
Whiter than white [Britain only]
Bagehot
Blowback

■International
BRICs, emerging markets and the world economy
Not just straw men
The poor and the global crisis
The trail of disaster

■Business
Corporate restructuring in Japan
Breaking free
Saving jobs in Europe
Pain and pleasure
America's thriving gossip magazines
Rags to riches
Airbus and Boeing resume their feud
Hard pounding
The Saad and Algosaibi groups
Family fortunes
General Motors sells Saab
Unstable atom
Corporate hedging gets harder
The perils of prudence
Face value
Godly but ambitious

■Briefing
Fund management
Wasting assets

■Finance and Economics
Financial reform in America
New foundation, walls intact
TPG exits Shenzhen Development Bank
Money from another time
Explaining the oil-price rally
Taming a wild beast
CDSs and bankruptcy
No empty threat
Investment spending in China
Reap what you sow
Buttonwood
Not so fast
Economics focus
The lessons of 1937

■Science & Technology
Black holes on a desktop
Dumb insolence
High-tech dentistry
St Elmo's frier
A web of sound
Talk about that
Paternity and parental investment
Like father, like son

■Books & Arts
Art Basel 2009
Recession appeal
Liberty and terror
Paying the price
Women and jihad
A singular life
Richard Haass on Iraq
A good man in Washington
Britain's roads
Motor ways and wherefores
“Phèdre” at the National Theatre
A world first

■Obituary
Omar Bongo

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Unemployment
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
US corporate defaults

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
Public debt
The biggest bill in history
Gordon Brown stumbles on
Reprieved
The worrying European elections
Trouble at the polls
Deforestation and carbon credits
Seeing REDD in the Amazon
Wall Street and the taxpayer
Thanks, for nothing
Sri Lanka after the war
Victory's rotten fruits

■Letters
On carbon taxes, Myanmar, Chevron in Ecuador, finance, MPs' expenses, guns

■Briefing
The Amazon
The future of the forest
Oil and land rights in Peru
Blood in the jungle

■United States
The politics of debt
Seeing red
The decennial census
The knock on the door
The Caperton v Massey case
Not for sale
Rural health reform
Small steps
Cracking down on illegal immigration
The Missouri way
Criminal law in California
A voice for the forsaken
Do charter schools work?
Time for a test
New York's new casino
A break at last
Lexington
The underworked American
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The Americas
Brazil's recovering economy
Ready to roll again
Waste disposal in Colombia
Muck and brass plates
Canadians abroad
Some are on their own

■Asia
America and China talk climate change
Heating up or cooling down?
Bangladesh's government
Keeping its head above water
The sex industry in Cambodia
The traffic police
Unrest in Uzbekistan
Fata Fergana
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Here comes trouble
Banyan
Chasing ghosts
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Middle East & Africa
Crisis in Sudan
The promise and peril of independence
South Africa's trade unions
Payback time?
Shell in Nigeria
Spilling over
Lebanon's election
A win for the West
Israel and America
A test of friendship

■Europe
The European elections
Swing low, swing right
France's victorious centre-right
Sarkozy on top
The Eurosceptic Dutch
Wilders rides in
Berlusconi loses ground
But still it moves
Germany looks to September
Merkel's mood music
Spain's People's Party wins
Rajoy ahoy
Scary elections in eastern Europe
Time to start fretting
Latvia's economic woes
Lat in the lurch
Charlemagne
The endless election round

■Britain
The survival of Gordon Brown
Stoppable force meets immovable object
The BNP's breakthrough
Booted and suited
Suing the Omagh bombers
Justice, of a sort
Secret evidence in court
Time to show your hand, or fold
The anti-terrorist hotline
Not very hot
Public and private pensions
Worlds apart
Bagehot
Peter's pet

■International
The UN's secretary-general
The score at half-time
Conserving forests
REDDy and waiting Previous print editions

■A special report on the euro area
Holding together
A tortuous path
One size fits none
No exit
The non-nuclear options
Fear of floating
Soft centre
Warmer inside
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Netbooks
Small but disruptive
Smart-phone wars
Pre conceived
Arcandor's bankruptcy
The till is bare
India's cheap housing boom
The nano home
The plight of Ford
A stony road
Executive pay in America
Principles, not pitchforks
Face value
Steel and brass

■Briefing
Government debt
The big sweat

■Finance and economics
Repaying TARP money
Hauled to safety
Buttonwood
Caught short
Banks' exposure to eastern Europe
Stand by me
Sovereign credit-default swaps
Muffled signals
America's life-settlement industry
From mortgages to mortality
The sale of BGI
Selling the family silver
The IMF's search for funds
Promises, promises
Paul Krugman's London lectures
Dismal science
Economics focus
Fatalism v fetishism

■Science & Technology
Solar-powered manned flight
Flying for ever
Positive thinking's negative results
Words of wisdom
Drug-resistant infections
Fighting superbugs
The science of ageing wine
Box clever
Anti-mist coatings
Not misty for me

■Books & Arts
An exhibition of medieval drawings
Images to delight and confound
The inefficiency of markets
Slaves to some defunct economist
Venezuela's curious coup
Riddle wrapped in a mystery
History of science
Crooked path to universal truth
Harold Varmus's life as a scientist
The journey of an inquiring mind
Anti-smoking activism
Puff by puff, inch by inch

■Obituary
Danny La Rue

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Oil reserves
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Stockmarkets